Local bulk physics from intersecting modular Hamiltonians

DOI10.1007/JHEP06(2017)120zbMATH Open1380.81333arXiv1703.06523OpenAlexW3100988780WikidataQ114233520 ScholiaQ114233520MaRDI QIDQ683238FDOQ683238

Authors: Daniel Kabat, Gilad Lifschytz 

Publication date: 5 February 2018

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We show that bulk quantities localized on a minimal surface homologous to a boundary region correspond in the CFT to operators that commute with the modular Hamiltonian associated with the boundary region. If two such minimal surfaces intersect at a point in the bulk then CFT operators which commute with both extended modular Hamiltonians must be localized at the intersection point. We use this to construct local bulk operators purely from CFT considerations, without knowing the bulk metric, using intersecting modular Hamiltonians. For conformal field theories at zero and finite temperature the appropriate modular Hamiltonians are known explicitly and we recover known expressions for local bulk observables.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.06523

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zbMATH Keywords

conformal field theoryAdS-CFT correspondence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Kaluza-Klein and other higher-dimensional theories (83E15) Relativistic dynamics for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H40)

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